You know one thing that many people have either forgotten about, and the young people probably have never even been told?Our vaccination scars for polio and small pox.I'd bet you ten bucks that you won't run into many young people who'd even know what that scar on all of our forearms was all about, or why we have them...

You know one thing that many people have either forgotten about, and the young people probably have never even been told?Our vaccination scars for polio and small pox.I'd bet you ten bucks that you won't run into many young people who'd even know what that scar on all of our forearms was all about, or why we have them...

After thirty years of construction work, getting all banged up , I probably could'nt find mine if I looked for it. I believe I have more scars than frankenstien .

<quoted text>I knew that chickens kept snakes away, but never knew how. Very interesting! Well, it will look like winter in th summer around here!LOL There will be a layer of moth balls all around my place. I wonder if it is legal to own a mongoose in Kentucky?

Snakes sometimes will eat other snakes.. And don't forget, we have natural predators in Kentucky: Owls, coyotes (believe it or not, a coyote?), bobcats, foxes, raccoons, snapping turtles and crows.

You CAN purchase Mongoose oil, you know. Maybe Google it. I would imagine it to cost a pretty penny though. I think your best bet is to spread moth balls around the outside parameter of your home itself, and then just be careful while you let nature do Her thing.

I've lived out here for a long time now and have never run across anything too nasty yet that put me in immediate danger. Never found a snake IN my house here yet either. I mostly see black snakes, tree snakes and rat or corn snakes outside while I'm fooling around in my gardens or walking in the woods.. But you gotta keep your eyes open and your ears keen. Don't loose focus, even thought it's hard when you're out in nature. Copperheads nests are said to smell like cucumbers, and I have smelled that. Didn't investigate, I just changed my course. Cotton mouths? Simply sneaky and dangerous. But as long as you watch where you're going, there isn't a snake out there that will chase you down to bite you.(Keep your ears open because you'll hear a rattle snake LONG before you'll likely see it).

I don't know if you're living in the boondocks or not, but around here I usually have plenty of all the above mentioned as far as 'snake chasers' go, even fox.. Just the 'good' insects seem to be going missing. Which is going to cause a domino affect if something is out of kilter..

This is one big High 5 to all of you , who have done the following..Churned butter , or buttermilkMade homemade ice creamMade homemade souse( pigs head )Quilted with the old timing hanging boardsWent to the five and dimeRoad in those old little metal cars( wish I still had mine)Drank, onion tea, for colicHad a chicken scratch ya , as it ran over you to help cure the poxPicked black berries , all day and scratched all night from the chiggersLit your room up many nights, with lighting bugsSwang on the porch swing all night with your loveOh one could go on and on.....

Or tied a june bug on a stringcaught night crawlers for fishingran a trot lineused an outhouse and a Montgomery Wards cataloguemade a spool willy with a thread spool,a rubber band, and a matchwent to a store where they used a hook to get high up dusty cans Shopped for the perfect feed sack to make skirts for the girlswatched them roll their hair with tin can pieces wrapped in ragsBought an RC and a moon pie for 10 cents.. 5 cents eachworked most all day hoeing the garden for the 10 centscleaned out hog guts, then boiled them for sausage casingsturned the hand crank sausage grinder way into the nightshelled walnuts and went to school with stained handswent sleigh riding on an old car hoodplowed behind a mule that had been eating green onions.. whew!!dipped wiggle tails off the rain barrel water so clothes could be washed with a scrub boardsquirted milk from Ol' Bossy into a cat's facehad a wet corn cob fight with your cousins (that was the best fun)tied a tooth to a string and a door knob, waiting for someone to open the doorwatched your mama bed down the baby in a drawer or a boxHad to wait until you were 12 years old to visit the hospitalGot your driver's license and bought a car for $115 (a summer's work). sprinkled lime down the toilet hole Hoped the chickens hanging out under there did not bite your hiney LOL... and those were the GOOD OLD DAYS?

WOW! I'm having no trouble whatsoever here. I don't get it. But I have a clue, so OJG please try this:

On the Topix page, right click and then hit "View Page Info".(But don't do it in this comment box. Do it on a main frame/border of the page or something).Then: Click on the "Security" tab.Click "View Cookies"Click "Remove all cookies" and then also click that 'x' by the top where it says Topix. Then clear all cookies AGAIN from the same box.

See if that helps you and then let me know. I have a couple more tricks I might be able to pull out of my sleeve.

@ AW ; and hide in the weeds by the road and wait for a car to come by,(which back then took a while) and throw an old Hub-cap in the road, and yell out ; HUB-CAP , you lost your hubcap ! of course they would stop and walk around to check all four. then we would run like the devil ! I know, that was mean, but WE did'nt have computers and such, so we had to be creative !...Also remember the willow switches on my butt ! hahaha!

<quoted text>Or tied a june bug on a stringcaught night crawlers for fishingran a trot lineused an outhouse and a Montgomery Wards cataloguemade a spool willy with a thread spool,a rubber band, and a matchwent to a store where they used a hook to get high up dusty cansShopped for the perfect feed sack to make skirts for the girlswatched them roll their hair with tin can pieces wrapped in ragsBought an RC and a moon pie for 10 cents.. 5 cents eachworked most all day hoeing the garden for the 10 centscleaned out hog guts, then boiled them for sausage casingsturned the hand crank sausage grinder way into the nightshelled walnuts and went to school with stained handswent sleigh riding on an old car hoodplowed behind a mule that had been eating green onions.. whew!!dipped wiggle tails off the rain barrel water so clothes could be washed with a scrub boardsquirted milk from Ol' Bossy into a cat's facehad a wet corn cob fight with your cousins (that was the best fun)tied a tooth to a string and a door knob, waiting for someone to open the doorwatched your mama bed down the baby in a drawer or a boxHad to wait until you were 12 years old to visit the hospitalGot your driver's license and bought a car for $115 (a summer's work).sprinkled lime down the toilet holeHoped the chickens hanging out under there did not bite your hiney LOL... and those were the GOOD OLD DAYS?

Yep! Except I never wore a feed sack skirt, I know some who did though. My baby sister, the one I saw today in her little metal car with her pony tails and red ribbons, rested for the first 5 days of her live in a dresser drawer, hehe... And I'd forgotten COMPLETELY about those wiggle tails!! You're right!! I didn't even like washing my hair from the grands rain barrel water if they were in there, LOL!! WOW! A blast from the past. I know my baths were in a steel wash tub with water heated on the pot belly coal stove every summer when I was a little kid down there, haha.

But yes, I still think those were the good old days. And in case we ever have to go back to living that way again, we'll sure know how to do it.:)

<quoted text>Or tied a june bug on a stringcaught night crawlers for fishingran a trot lineused an outhouse and a Montgomery Wards cataloguemade a spool willy with a thread spool,a rubber band, and a matchwent to a store where they used a hook to get high up dusty cansShopped for the perfect feed sack to make skirts for the girlswatched them roll their hair with tin can pieces wrapped in ragsBought an RC and a moon pie for 10 cents.. 5 cents eachworked most all day hoeing the garden for the 10 centscleaned out hog guts, then boiled them for sausage casingsturned the hand crank sausage grinder way into the nightshelled walnuts and went to school with stained handswent sleigh riding on an old car hoodplowed behind a mule that had been eating green onions.. whew!!dipped wiggle tails off the rain barrel water so clothes could be washed with a scrub boardsquirted milk from Ol' Bossy into a cat's facehad a wet corn cob fight with your cousins (that was the best fun)tied a tooth to a string and a door knob, waiting for someone to open the doorwatched your mama bed down the baby in a drawer or a boxHad to wait until you were 12 years old to visit the hospitalGot your driver's license and bought a car for $115 (a summer's work).sprinkled lime down the toilet holeHoped the chickens hanging out under there did not bite your hiney LOL... and those were the GOOD OLD DAYS?

did most of those as well. I slept in a drawer till I got too big for it,sometimes I wish I was little enough to be in that box again. Oh we'll my next one will be much larger. Lol

Powdered sulfur, mothballs and cat litter in cracks of floors deter poisonous snakes . The nonpoisonous ones should not be so worrisome. You can also buy traps or make snake traps. Never used them as I have no fear of reptiles since the only fear I have are of terrorists. Hehe. Oh, and the destruction of the world. Hope, it helps.

@ AW ; and hide in the weeds by the road and wait for a car to come by,(which back then took a while) and throw an old Hub-cap in the road, and yell out ; HUB-CAP , you lost your hubcap ! of course they would stop and walk around to check all four. then we would run like the devil ! I know, that was mean, but WE did'nt have computers and such, so we had to be creative !...Also remember the willow switches on my butt ! hahaha!

Mom made us cut our own willow switches. I learned to get the longest one possible, then stand up really close and jump up and down and scream. That longer switch came around and smacked her dress tail and she thought she was flailing the tar out of me, but I never got touched but I made it sound good. hahaha

<quoted text>Mom made us cut our own willow switches. I learned to get the longest one possible, then stand up really close and jump up and down and scream. That longer switch came around and smacked her dress tail and she thought she was flailing the tar out of me, but I never got touched but I made it sound good. hahaha

Had my fair share of cutting switches, but whenever MY Momma had to wait to dish out a whoopin', it usually only got worse...

Wasn't much jumping around you could do if the first thing she grabbed was that old belt with that big brass buckle on it, or that darned old fly swatter. Those fly swatters were ALL made of metal back then.. They hurt like a coat hanger on your bare legs. Bruises? Oh heck yeah..

These days they'd go to jail for doing what we used to get done to us. But we turned out okay.. Can't say so much for todays youth.

Guess all those switchings have caused us to digress or something. They only hurt my pride. Heck, Dad would leave belt welps, switch welps. Heck, that's what is wrong with society today. The government agencies run our lives. True, they are there for domestic abuse. But if fathers, brothers , uncles, sisters, mothers and aunts could solve the problem voila ...issue resolved. Old fashioned whipping never hurt me or my siblings. LOL.

LOL! I forgot to add that danged broom of hers. I got cracked in the head with that thing more times than I can recall. One time she busted my scalp open with it when the metal wires that hold the bristles on the handle hit my head instead of the bristles of that cursed old broom.

That's the last time I ever got hit with that broom, too. I bled all over the place that day. Still carry the scar to this day.

<quoted text>Mom made us cut our own willow switches. I learned to get the longest one possible, then stand up really close and jump up and down and scream. That longer switch came around and smacked her dress tail and she thought she was flailing the tar out of me, but I never got touched but I made it sound good. hahaha

hahaha! You nailed it, I'm laughing my gutts out here ! are we brothers ? sounds like we grew up in the same house . roflmbo !

LOL! I forgot to add that danged broom of hers. I got cracked in the head with that thing more times than I can recall. One time she busted my scalp open with it when the metal wires that hold the bristles on the handle hit my head instead of the bristles of that cursed old broom.That's the last time I ever got hit with that broom, too. I bled all over the place that day. Still carry the scar to this day.

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